NYC Well being + Hospitals/North Central Bronx Earns Prime Instructing Hospital Award From the Leapfrog Group

NYC Well being + Hospitals/North Central Bronx Earns Prime Instructing Hospital Award From the Leapfrog Group

The ability is one in every of 58 hospitals nationwide to earn the honour this 12 months

Dec 06, 2022

NYC Well being + Hospitals/North Central Bronx as we speak obtained the Prime Instructing Hospital designation from The Leapfrog Group, one in every of solely 58 hospitals nationwide to earn the award this 12 months. This follows the award final month of an A grade from the Leapfrog Group for North Central Bronx, the one hospital within the Bronx to obtain the designation. The Prime Instructing Hospital award was primarily based on the hospital’s excessive marks throughout numerous metrics, together with sturdy security and outcomes outcomes for prime threat surgical procedures and procedures, in addition to measures to stop medical and prescribing errors. The Leapfrog Group is a nationwide nonprofit group dedicated to high quality, security, and transparency within the U.S. well being system. Awardees will likely be honored tonight on the 2022 Leapfrog Annual Assembly and Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C.

“We’re grateful that NYC Well being + Hospitals/North Central Bronx is being acknowledged for the excellent care our employees gives,” mentioned NYC Well being + Hospitals/North Central Bronx CEO Christopher Mastromano. “Folks within the Bronx have lengthy acknowledged the care and dedication our docs, nurses, and affected person care employees convey to their sufferers each day.”

“We’re honored to acknowledge NYC Well being + Hospitals/North Central Bronx as a Prime Instructing Hospital this 12 months,” mentioned Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “North Central Bronx has demonstrated that they honestly put sufferers first. We congratulate the board, employees and clinicians whose efforts made this honor doable.”

The rigorous standards for the Prime Instructing Hospital designation embrace:

• An A on the present Leapfrog Hospital Security Grade.
• Widespread use of digital prescribing of medicines, an vital instrument to keep away from remedy errors.
• An Intensive Care Unit managed or co-managed by crucial care specialists.
• Assembly Leapfrog’s security and outcomes requirements for high-risk surgical procedures and procedures.
• Acting at or above the nationwide charge for mortality measures on coronary heart assault, coronary heart failure, pneumonia, persistent obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD), and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).

The complete methodology for the Prime Instructing Hospital designation is accessible here.

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About NYC Well being + Hospitals/North Central Bronx
NYC Well being + Hospitals/North Central Bronx (NCB) is a member facility of the New York Metropolis Well being + Hospitals system, one in every of eleven acute care amenities throughout the Metropolis of New York. A 215-bed group hospital, NCB focuses on girls’s and kids’s providers. It additionally gives Behavioral Well being acute and ambulatory care. Its busy outpatient division has led the way in which in community-based care delivered in a compassionate and culturally-appropriate method. Its Labor and Supply service safely brings greater than 1,000 infants into the world annually. NCB is dedicated to offering protected, high-quality medical take care of any and all in want. For extra data go to http://www.nyc.gov/hhc/ncbh/ 

About NYC Well being + Hospitals
NYC Well being + Hospitals is the biggest municipal well being care system within the nation serving greater than 1,000,000 New Yorkers yearly in additional than 70 affected person care places throughout town’s 5 boroughs. A strong community of outpatient, neighborhood-based main and specialty care facilities anchors care coordination with the system’s trauma facilities, nursing houses, post-acute care facilities, residence care company, and MetroPlus well being plan—all supported by 11 important hospitals. Its various workforce of greater than 43,000 workers is uniquely centered on empowering New Yorkers, with out exception, to dwell the healthiest life doable. For extra data, go to www.nychealthandhospitals.org and keep linked on Fb at https://www.facebook.com/NYCHealthandHospitals or Twitter at @NYCHealthSystem.

About The Leapfrog Group
Based in 2000 by giant employers and different purchasers, The Leapfrog Group is a nationwide nonprofit group driving a motion for large leaps ahead for affected person security. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey and new Leapfrog Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Survey accumulate and transparently report hospital and ASC efficiency, empowering purchasers to seek out the highest-value care and giving customers the lifesaving data they should make knowledgeable choices. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, Leapfrog’s different primary initiative, assigns letter grades to hospitals primarily based on their document of affected person security, serving to customers shield themselves and their households from errors, accidents, accidents, and infections. For extra, follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and sign up for our newsletter.